Psychedelics

The documented history, science, culture and law of mind-altering substances, from ancient rites to Cold War laboratories, with the legends checked against the record.

• MKUltra: The CIA's Secret Psychedelic Experiments For twenty years the CIA tested LSD on Americans, some of them unwitting. Then it destroyed the files. Here is what survived.
• Did the Ancient Greeks Drink a Psychedelic at Eleusis? A sacred barley drink, a grain fungus and a secret kept for a thousand years: the ergot theory of the Mysteries, weighed fairly.
• Bicycle Day: Albert Hofmann and the Accidental Discovery of LSD In 1938 a Swiss chemist made a compound nobody wanted. Five years later he looked again, and rode home on a bicycle in terror.